This camping trip had been 3 weeks in the planning. All of Florida had been pretty much flat into the month of May and who wants to go camping when it's flat? Just hold out and wait for some waves... We figured since there are no waves lets just work real hard to pass the time. Side jobs, late days, make some money while its flat. It was work, work, work and thats not a very balanced way to live. As we got later into the month of May our chances of scoring a good trip were fading. The onset of June in Florida means: more heat, more bugs and flat spells. The holding period was almost over, our chances were slipping. Finally about May 19th the models were showing an Atlantic Low for the following weekend of the Memorial Day holiday . We made our plans and headed over after work late Thursday night in the driving rain. That first night we parked too close to the brush and my truck got filled with no-see-ums and mosquitos. We got eaten alive. The only good thing was that we exited the bug infested nightmare at 6am to surf first light and watch the sunrise from
Sebastian Inlet.

The surf was good fun. 2-3ft kinda local swell (not closing out), cloudy, light rain and offshore winds. We were elated just to be free, have a few days off with nothing to do but surf, surf, surf. That and the fact there was more swell on the way and the wind was forecast to stay offshore for the whole weekend.

By Saturday we had moved to a proper campground put up the tent, the air mattress and got a good nights rest. The sun came out, the swell picked up and the wind was still offshore. Sebastian was closing out so we found our own spot up the beach, deeper and not as closed out. We had a blast- barrells, long lines, you name it.

By late Saturday "the law of diminishing returns" was kicking in. Sebastain was our only option (SE wind) and it was aggro, crowded, closed out and over-wedged. Sunday morning we awoke to sore muscles, rashes and still perfect chest high waves. We surfed for a few more hours before breaking camp and heading home.

It was a great weekend- we surfed 7 hours on Friday, 4 hours on Saturday and about 3 hours on Sunday. The weather was gorgeous with nightime temps close to 70 and a cool breeze to keep those bugs away. If only every camping trip could go so well.